Breaking the fast

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Breaking the fast

Date1/7/1997

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Bull, Ron (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Breaking the fast: Leslie Masood Brown offers food to Sahar Ostetto-Najafi after sunset. Looking on are Zakeya Brull; left; Afroz Brown and Munawarali Najafi. During Ramadan; Muslims abstain from food; drink and sex from sunrise to sunset.

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